Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
Numbers
LawYea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
Exodus
LawAnd he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.
Exodus
Law / MosesTherefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelFor in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnSo they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHe poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
Psalms
PoetryAnd made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms
PoetryAsk thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWoe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukTherefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
Psalms
PoetryFor the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
Esther
HistoryWherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.
Ezra
History / EzraI am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
Exodus
LawThey shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
Joel
Minor ProphetsBut the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
Psalms
PoetryObserve the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.